Fibe-tongs



D. MOORE.

Fire Tongs.

No. 19,436. Patented Feb. 23, i858.

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DANIEL MOORE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FIRE-TONGS.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL MOORE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certainnew and useful Improvement in Tongs for Fires; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, making part of this specification, wherein Figure1 is a side View of a pair of tongs as fitted with my improvements, andFig. 2, is a section of my connecting slide.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Tongs used for wood, coal or other fires, have heretofore been formed,in almost all cases, with one moving leg, united to the other, and thehandle by a oint, and in the use of these tongs, for a comparativelyshort time, the joint becomes loose, and the ends of the legs neithercome properly together or hold the pieces of wood or other materialbeing burned, securely. To obviate this clifficulty various charactersof joints have been devised, but in all cases, with which I amacquainted, the device has been costly or else inconvenient in handlingthe tongs.

The nature of my said invention consists in the use of a curved slideattached to the inner part of one of the legs, receiving a tongueattached .to the inner part of the other leg, by which the parallelismin the movements of the ends of the tongs is maintained, insuring acorrect hold on any article seized by said tongs; and is also out of theway in handling the tongs; great accuracy in fitting the joint becomesunneces- 19,436, dated February 23, 1858.

sary,'and said joint can be smaller in its size than would be requiredif my improvement was dispensed with.

In the drawing a, is the handle and b, c, are the moving and fixed legsof the tongs, and d, is the joint; these parts are to be of any desiredsize or shape as usual; 6, is a curved slide formed as shown sectionallyin Fig. 2, made on, or attached to, the inner side of one of the legs(6,) and may be plain as shown, or of an ornamental shape if desired, solong as it be adapted to receive the tongue 2', that is connected to theinner side of the other leg (0) and slides in the aforesaid slide 0, asthe tongs are opened or shut. It will now be apparent that the points ofthe legs I), and 0, cannot separate laterally from any looseness of thejoint cl, and that my device is not in the way of freely handling thetongs and cannot pinch or otherwise injure the hands of the person usingthe tongs; and my said slide is cheap durable, can be of an ornamentalcharacter, and renders the tongs far more efficient in use.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent isThe slide (6) and tongue 2', attached to the respective sides of thelegs of the tongs, and acting in the manner and for the purposessubstantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this second day ofFebruary 1858.

DANIEL MOORE.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THOMAS G. HAROLD.

